Zim said:
DMeisterJ said:
There's no real way to know. Not even roughly. It's just guesstimates all up and through this thread. The only ones who know are publishers and the like. We don't know how much games cost unless someone tells us, so speculation of game costs is fruitless. |
Could you please read the thread. We know the costs for Lost Planet, Gta4, Stranglehold and Gears of War, none those were ''guesstimates''. They are however reasonable bench marks to then make estimates about other titles.
Shanbcn that is actually very bad for the companies developing on PS3. Games don't sell as well as they do on the 360 and development is far more expensive than on the wii. Why are there still these titles on PS3? Because a lot of these projects were started before it was known Sony would be in 3rd place. Those big budget titles you speak of are purely left overs of companies that couldn't take the title multiplatform. FF13 went multiplat because S-E needed the extra cash because the PS3 alone wasn't enough. MGS4 certainly appeared to be somewhat of a dissappointment for Konami as it was hugely overshipped in Japan. The development costs were clearly far far higher than previous games yet sales weren't.
The question is why has development on these PS3 exclusives taken so long? Gears of War 1+2 have come out before KZ2 and seemingly will support more features having split screen, online co-op and in GoW2 horde mode. Not only that but KZ2 doesn't seem to do anything that would justify that extra time over GoW2.
And like Bengabenga said if games can be made much cheaper on the 360 then companies are making a bigger return on it. There have been big budget games on the 360 but they have been much quicker to come out and so cost less. Just look at games like Mass effect.
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If you read my post, I said "unless someone (dev/pub) tell us".
I'm talking about estimiates of how much games cost. :S
@ Benga
That's fine. But to be absolute in terminology when guessing is pretty messed up. We don't know how much KZ2 costs/ed to make. You can guess, but at the end of the day, it is a guess, is it not? So why be absolute and say it cost 60 million when you don't really know?
